Button



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G. A. WADE.

" BUTTON. N0. 371,864. Patented Oot. l8, 1887.

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BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,864, dated October18, 188'?.

Application filed August 11, 1886. Serial No. 210.619.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, Gnonen A. WADE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Winchester, Middlesex county, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and Vuseful Improvements in Buttons, of which thefollowing isa specification.

My invention is a button having a perforated body and a detachableeyepiece, and constructed, as fully set forth hereinafter, so as topermit the form and style of the button to be readily modified incertain respects, and facilitate the application and detachment ofpieces of metal, fabric, or other material constituting the ornamentalportion of the but ton.

In the drawings, Figure l is a transverse section showing my improvedbutton secured to a piece of fabric. Fig. 2 is an edge View of thebutton. Fig. 3 is a plan of the body portion. Fig. et is a sectionshowing the body and eye-piece detached. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are sectionsshowing modifications. Fig. 8 is a plan of Fig. 7.

The body A of the button is of any suitable or desired form, size, andmaterial, and is provided with a slot or opening, x, of circular orother shape, adapted to receive the stem a of an eyepiece, B. Theeye-piece is provided at thel outer end with a head or shoulder, ZJ, ofsuch size as to prevent the stem from passing completely through theopening, and at the lower end of the stem is a transverse eye, e, in such a position that when the eye-piece is inserted in the opening in thebody of the button the eye e will bein such a position that the threadsecuring the button to the fabric may be passed transversely through theeye, as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that so long as the button is disconnected from thefabric the'eyepiece can be detached, but that when the threads s arepassed through the fabric and through the eye e, as shown in-Fig. l, theeye-piece is not only bound to the fabric, but the body of the button isalso secured. By thus combining a perforated button-body and aperforated and headed eye-piece I am enabled to secure a number ofadvantages in the manu facture and use of buttons. For instance, the

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head b of the eye-piece may be made of metal, pearl, or other material,or covered with any suitable fabric, so that by substituting differenteyepieces in connection with thc same buttoirbodies a great variety ofstyles of buttons may be readily provided. Again, the eye-piece may bethe means of clamping to the body of the button an ornamental disk orplate, d, perforated for the passage of the stem of the eyepiece andclamped tothe face of 6o the button thereby, as shown in Fig. 5, orheldin a recess in the body of the button, as shown in Fig. 6.

Instead of a plate the eyepiece may hold in position a disk of fabric,in which case it is desirable to secure the disk at the edges. One meansof effecting this is by providing the button-body at the edge with aflange, j', having an inner annular recess, w, (see Fig.

4,) into which the edge of the flexible disk d 7o Y extends, as shown inFig. 1, the stein a of the eye-piece passing through an opening in thecenter of the disk and the head b bearing upon and clasping the disk offabric to the face of the button, so that the flexible disk is held bothat the center and at the edges.

The stem a of the eye-piece may bein one part With the head, andperforated, as shown in Figs. 1, 4, 5, and 6, or the stem may consist ofmetal in the form of an eye or loop, as shown in Fig. 7. in which casethe opening x in the body A ofthe button is a slot, as shown in Fig. 8.rlhe stem and its eye may project below the lower face of the button, asshown in Fig. 6, or the button may have a transverse or dished recess,u, at the under side, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, so thatthe lower part of the button Will rest against the fabric.

Vithout limiting myself to the precise construction and arrangement ofparts shown, I claim- 1. The combination, in a button, of a body havinga depression, u, at the lower side and a central opening, x, and adetachable eyepiece consisting of a'perforated stem provided with ahead, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a two-part button, of a disk, the rigidperforated button-body A constituting the main part, and a rigiddctachable eye-piece provided with a stem hav roo ing a slot; at one endand a. head at the other In testimony Whereoi-Ihave signed my name andadapted to secure the dislrto the body of to this specification in thepresence of two subthe button, substantially as seb forth. seribingWitnesses.

3. The combination of the body A, having v 5 a. cent-ral opening, aiiange, and a recess, w, GEO. A. WADE.

and a detachable eye-piece, B, with a stem adapted to pass freely in andout the central `Witnessesz opening in the body, perforated ab the lowerROBINSON H. VHEELER, end and having a head, b, ab the upper end, GHAS.SEDGWICK. Io substantially as described. l

